Fiscal Fast – 7 days no spending (at all)

craigywv

well done GQ and HOGLET on your weight loss, I also have been on a diet this past few weeks and have lost quite a few pounds I not saying how much as I am so over weight and it would seem a lot to you but not to me as I am tiny and cuboid lol,I am beginning to see a waist forming sloooooowly . its helping eating all this salad malarkey and the heat makes me not too hungry, I have had tears and tantrums and many an early night or cold shower to take off the "want " for grub at night. I am a gut I cook , I bake , I eat it. well slowly does it. I try not to think about it too much but being on here is great as I can channel my thoughts to other things not great big bowls of steaming stodgy creamy mushroom and chicken pasta drool slobber see what I mean. that's what I having for dinner and im wanting it now.!!!!well still fasting here not been to a shop and wont be. getting a wash done and on the line and keeping myself busy today. lovely weather again have a lovely day all xxx

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Day 10 I have a very small shop to do today only four things but it means that any cash left over this month will be used for August as my family and I go away on the 15th for two weeks holidays.So I won't hopfully need to draw my normal £60.00 for August :):):)I will be using up stuff I have in the freezer and cupboards even more this month and lots of tinned stuff will be taken with us as we are going self-catering.

With 7 to feed and not a great deal of spare cash its the best way my DD can get a holiday.We take two cars and I have one of the boys and all the luggage and DD has the other lads and two dogs and a hampster and her OH. We go in convoy and have got packing the cars down to a fine art after all the years of doing it.Each boy has a small backpack in which they can take their stuff for holiday playtime I have a fishing rod and cricket bat etc in the back of my car with all of the luggae (Good job I have a seven seater that converts to an almost small van :):))

Fingers crossed today's shop won't be much, and that will be my last shop for July Two in a month :) I am really pleased with, and the left over cash will do for the two weeks in August.

My Ice cream tin of bits of 'shrapnel' pennies and five ps and any roadkill cash found is just under £74.87 collected over the past year

This gets changed up just before we go away and is used for 'Ice cream & treats for the kids on holiday. Suprising how it all mounts up.DD and I pool some cash plus any tesco club point or Sainsbobs nectar points to use just for food when on holiday, and we do really well, if we have enough left over on the last night of our hols it goes towards a meal out on the last night .Some years when we have been a bit strapped we may only have fish and chips and a walk along the front but we always never cook on our last night of the holidays Its our 'night off ' :):)
Well time to get a wriggle on
Have a good frugal weekend if you can
Cheers chums JackieO xxx

Living_proof

Slightly off topic but Jackie's post reminded me of a couple from Aberdeen with their grandson who were on a cheapie self catering holiday in Turkey, as were my family. Turkey at that time was amazingly good value and you didn't really have to worry about what meals out were costing, and we just had breakfast in the apartment. The other couple had put their meals frozen in their suitcases and maintained that once they were put in the apartment fridge they would defrost slowly and last them the week. I have to say that I thought it frugality to the extreme and wondered who would want to eat beef stew and the like in that heat! Each to their own as they say!

hoglet121

Living proof that reminds me of a holiday I took as a student to Corfu. We packed our bags with tesco value pasta and lived off it for a week. Not quite the same as taking frozen meals but it fed us well and saved us a heap of money.

craigywv

hi all I all chuffed with myself went shopping with mum and didn't spend a penny , not one . mum got what she needed and bought me my lunch I didn't even want to buy anything in shops. oh having 2 lg beef sausages in a baguette in oven with fried onions and mushrooms and bbq sauce I still full from lunch so will pop some corn for tv later, son still in caravan so no feeding him. tomorrow we going down to see him for the day and getting our lunch made for us so I shall make a jam sponge and custard to bring down for afters. I determined not to spend until its dire for milk or scurvy sets in. have a great weekend all,its cooler here today thank the Lord as I was ready for combusting here yesterday. xxx

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Really pleased with my shop today spent only £9.10 so have £31.12 left in my food purse and nothing to buy for the rest of this month.Its been really good using up some of my stores instead of going out and buying more.

I have just made a creme caramel dessert to go in the fridge and dug out a small tin of tuna and a small tin of sweetcorn with peppers and mixed them up with a large dollop of mayo and a splash of sweet chilli sauce so half of that I will have with a large salad for dinner and the rest will go in a jacket spud for lunch tomorrow.

I have enough cash left in my food purse to get me through to 15th August for fresh fruit and veg, until we go away on holiday
So I am a very happy bunny, :):)

GreyQueen

Great going, lovely peeps, great going.

I have had an NSD, despite poking around a car-boot sale for 30 mins first thing. Went to the park and picked a lot of wild plums. The ripest ones are falling and no one else seems interested in them at all; indeed, you get Very Funny Looks when you do pick them, but they were planted to be an urban help-yourself orchard, so I'm not doing anything wrong.

That's fruit sorted for the next few days. After several NSDs during the week, I splurged a whole £2 on food on Friday and spent nothing at all today, although I have had a lovely time playing on the allotment in this glorious weather.

Tomorrow will be a bit more of the same then getting myself turned back into tidiness before hitting the work-week. Total food spend for July is a princely £14.10 and I have eaten well and the cupboard is a long way from bare.

I was contemplating buying a single modest bottle of a nice ale or cider, to have a Sunday night treat after my hard labour on the lottie. D'you think that would be wicked indulgence, or a nice little treat?

Frugalsod

Well yesterday was a LSD as I had an ice-cream after helping out parents in the garden. Though if I keep cool I will be able to get through the rest of this month without any problems. I will be doing a top up shop next weekend but can survive on stocks till then.

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GreyQueen wrote: »

Great going, lovely peeps, great going.

I have had an NSD, despite poking around a car-boot sale for 30 mins first thing. Went to the park and picked a lot of wild plums. The ripest ones are falling and no one else seems interested in them at all; indeed, you get Very Funny Looks when you do pick them, but they were planted to be an urban help-yourself orchard, so I'm not doing anything wrong.

That's fruit sorted for the next few days. After several NSDs during the week, I splurged a whole £2 on food on Friday and spent nothing at all today, although I have had a lovely time playing on the allotment in this glorious weather.

Tomorrow will be a bit more of the same then getting myself turned back into tidiness before hitting the work-week. Total food spend for July is a princely £14.10 and I have eaten well and the cupboard is a long way from bare.

I was contemplating buying a single modest bottle of a nice ale or cider, to have a Sunday night treat after my hard labour on the lottie. D'you think that would be wicked indulgence, or a nice little treat?

Well done GQ on your efforts that's brilliant stuff, I think you more than deserve a little treat now and again, think of it as a pat on the back for all your hard work.
JackieO xxx

GreyQueen

I have splurged a mahoosive £1.20 at the supermarket, which bought me a big bottle of pear cider and a small bar of chocolate. Which are both history by now.

Other than that, I have spent nothing, but have come away from the allotment with some beetroots (mine) and 2 large courgettes and a handful of runner beans, the latter gifts from a kind neighbour.

I am a very lucky woman, and no mistake.